Port Kenyon, California

Coordinates: 40°35′42″N 124°16′47″W / 40.59500°N 124.27972°W / 40.59500; -124.27972

Port Kenyon
Unincorporated community
1876 hypothetical plat map showing relative wharf location
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Coordinates: 40°35′42″N 124°16′47″W / 40.59500°N 124.27972°W / 40.59500; -124.27972
Country	United States
State	California
County	Humboldt County
Elevation ^[1]	13 ft (4 m)

Port Kenyon is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California.^[1] It is located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northwest of Ferndale,^[2] at an elevation of 13 feet (4 m).^[1]

A post office operated at Port Kenyon from 1886 to 1899 and from 1903 to 1913.^[2] The town was founded by John Gardner Kenyon in 1876.^[2] After silting of the Salt River and repeated flooding, the port declined in the 1890s.^[2]

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^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Port Kenyon, California
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 125. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.

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